28 September 2012

Magic

Gargoyles watch throughout
the town, sneer, leer, stare
down as she hurries about.
She collects all she needs
for potions sought by desperate
friends: herbs, bark of tree, seeds,
grasses from dark spaces, essence of flowers,
things found on forest floor to sound of crow.
She assembles attentive to moon's phase,
boils while humming old phrases
passed from grandmother's grand-
mother, ancient knowledge held in spare
words said with right intention. Add the care
of friend for friend when fashioned
and the faith in efficacy.
Some call it witchcraft
but it's simply magic.

This is in response to Fireblossom Friday over at Real Garden with Real Toads who asks us if we believe in magic. Check out some of the eerie answers.

nice...love the opening with gargoyles...we have a few around town...and i like as well that it is passed one generation to the next as well...i wonder a bit at some of the magic lost when we dont pass some things on...but i know that is stretching this out a bit..ha

This is wonderful in it's respect for the art of magic, something shunned and reviled. I was reared in the hills of WV, and I have known wise women --I even have some stories of encounters from my youth. Sadly, now that I think of it, as we moved forward in time, we seem to have lost that magic. Hopefully, it is only that I no longer have their acquaintance.

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As an ancestor in training I'm staying active and alert in this my middle decade of old age. In my first decade I retired and moved to Antigua and Italy to have adventures in other cultures. Traveling around the Caribbean and Europe for nine years grew me out of my too- small self and gave me a bigger world view and my place in it. That was quite an education. I'm married to my best friend and main squeeze for 44 years and have a daughter who's saving the rain forest together with her husband. Through her two children's tutelage I'm learning how to grandmother. It's a work in progress demanding fierce love, scoops of creativity as well as considerable fun along the way. I love my life.

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